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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST (Historic Sites Survey) var.d. MSA SE16-5 Image No: se16-5-0241 Enlarge and print image (70K) |
| NFS Fonn 10-900 (Rev. 11-90) OMB No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section number J8_ Page 15 At his death, friends and colleagues of Dr. Daniel Salmon remembered him as a kind and generous person who devoted his life to research, and who sought to impart his knowledge to the public through teaching and writing. His obituaries note that he "drank of the cup of bitterness of a country's ingratitude," but that "future history will probably record this good man's worth and our children's children will lay at his feet their tribute of appreciation of his life work of investigation and usefulness."16 Since 1885, when Dr. Salmon discovered the first strain of the Salmonella disease, over 2,000 other strains have been identified. V. HISTORY OF 4728 DORSET AVENUE The Salmon/Stohlman house at 4728 Dorset Avenue was built by Dr. Daniel Salmon by 1893 and survives intact on its original one-acre lot of land. Although the original plans called for the construction of the "company houses" by the Spring of 1891, records indicate that the first houses were not actually built until circa 1893. Daniel Salmon gained ownership of his property at 4728 Dorset Avenue in 1892, when the one-acre lot was transferred to him by Miles Fuller.17 The following year, in 1893, Salmon was assessed for one acre of land in "Part of Somerset Heights." The acre of land was valued at $200.00 and the improvement thereon at $2,000.00, for a total assessed value of $2,200.00.18 This high assessment confirms that Daniel Salmon had built the house at 4728 Dorset Avenue between the time of conveyance in 1892 and the time of the assessment in 1893. By 1897, Salmon's taxes had increased to include a $2,900.00 assessment for land and improvements, plus $380.00 for personal property, including livestock, household furniture and "other." In 1900, Daniel Salmon is listed in the U.S. Census records as living on Dorset Avenue with his wife, Mary Salmon and a 26-year old female servant. Two years later, Daniel Salmon sold his house and lot to John William Stohlman, and within three years moved to Uruguay. It is not known where Salmon lived in the three-year period from 1902-1905. In 1906, after Salmon had left this country for South America, he is listed in the Montgomery County assessment records as owner of 9 lots in Somerset Heights, comprising about 4 Vz acres total. These lots, scattered throughout the emerging neighborhood on Dorset, Essex and Cumberland Avenues, were all unimproved. The entire 4 1A acres was assessed at a mere $630.00. By the next year, Salmon appears to have sold at least one of the lots. Based upon these findings, it seems clear that as one of the founding members of the "colony," 16 Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, "Tribute to Doctor Salmon," American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, vol. K, October 1914, No. 10, p. 740-741. 17 Montgomery County Land Records, JA 34/135. 18 Tax Assessment Records, Maryland State Archives, Rockville 4th Collection District, 1876-1896. |